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The only safe environment for a human being is under a weak government with very restricted powers. Normal people don't need much to be happy – food, shelter, dignity and freedom from marauders. They need a rule of law that applies to everyone equally and at all times and in all circumstances.

In our time, when people are saying we must sacrifice liberty for security, that scrapping the Constitution is necessary to win the "war" against terrorism, I would suggest that you take your choice of genocides in the past 100 years and remind yourself what happens when people buy into the false proposition that the end justifies the means. People who preach that are always more interested in the means than in any end.

There are people living among us at this very moment capable of the cruelty so evident in the Holocaust. All they are waiting for is the opportunity. No greater opportunity exists than when a government enlists such people and says whatever you do is now justified for the sake of the "greater good."

A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name or the name of an organization with which you are associated is a tyranny. A government that invades other countries and that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny.

Americans are on the edge of a long night. We had better wake up and step back before it's too late.

when or if the President of the United States, the Congress of the United
States or any other federal agent or agency declares the Constitution of the United
States to be suspended or abolished, if the President or any other federal entity
attempts to institute martial law or its equivalent without an official declaration in
one or more of the states without the consent of that state or if any federal order
attempts to make it unlawful for individual Americans to own firearms or to confiscate
firearms, the State of Arizona, when joined by thirty-four of the other fifty states,
declares as follows: that the states resume all state powers delegated by the
Constitution of the United States and assume total sovereignty; that the states re-ratify
and re-establish the present Constitution of the United States as the charter for the
formation of a new federal government, to be followed by the election of a new Congress
and President and the reorganization of a new judiciary, similarly following the
precedent and procedures of the founding fathers; that individual members of the military
return to their respective states and report to the Governor until a new President is
elected;